LibGuides Best Practices: Best Practices for Boxes

Use a tabbed box to include multiple tabs of content in a single box - it's a great way to include a lot of content without taking up a lot of space!

Best practices for Tabbed Boxes

• Don't use tabs if it will create unnecessary clicks
• Have only one row of tabs
• Keep your tab names short

Gallery boxes allow you to share a number of images in one box. This type of box is often referred to as a carousel or slideshow.

Best practices for Galley Boxes

• use sparingly
• keep all images in a gallery the same size
• use slow rotation speed
• add the alt tags
• if you add descriptions for the images in your gallery, do it for all of them
• if a gallery box is at top of your guide, you're forcing users to scroll to get to important content
• Moving elements in a page reduces overall usability
  • Some users have motor skill issues - meaning they can't click on an image before it rotates to the next
  • Low-literacy users may need more time to read information on an image or slide
  • Non-native speakers may need more time to read information as well
• Gallery boxes increase load time